So, how do you know when President Obama lies? Well, every time he and his supporters open their mouths.
From the New York Daily News: The Obama administration was wary to label the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as an act of terrorism but declassified testimony from a top Pentagon official indicates there was little ambiguity among Defense Department players that terrorism was the likely motive.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice represented the Obama administration in discussing the incident in the aftermath of the attack, suggesting the death of Ambassador Chris Stephens and three Americans came as the result of a protest over an incendiary viral video blasting the prophet Mohammad and was not a preplanned act of terrorism.
Rice appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation," CNN's "State of the Union," NBC's "Meet The Press," "Fox News Sunday" and ABC's "This Week" on Sep. 16, 2012, to speak on behalf of the President and she repeated the belief that the incident was a "spontaneous" mob uprising and not "a preplanned, premeditated attack."
"This is not an expression of hostility in the broadest sense toward the United States or to U.S. policy," she stated.
Republicans pounced on Rice's analysis, claiming she was placating extremists and not adequately representing the national security threat to the American people.
Now testimony by Gen. Carter Ham, head of AFRICOM at the time of attack, before the House Committee on Armed Services in June 2013 suggests that Defense officials did not raise the prospect of an out-of-control demonstration and immediately deemed the incident an attack.
Ham, whose partially redacted transcript was declassified by the House on Monday, said at the 2013 hearing that he was alerted to the incident 15 minutes after it erupted at 9:42 p.m. Libya Time (3:42 p.m. EST) on Sep. 11, 2012.
"When we saw a rocket-propelled grenade attack, what appeared to be pretty well aimed small arms fire — again, this is all coming second and third hand through unclassified, you know, commercial cellphones for the most part initially. To me, it started to become clear pretty quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack and not just not something sporadic," he stated.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/pentagon-labeled-benghazi-terrorist-attack-obama-administration-wavered-newly-declassified-tes-article-1.1579141#ixzz2qSQfqhsn
Of course the response of Obama and Hillary Clinton, who was in charge of the embassy is this:
The moment Clinton loses the White House.
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The "what difference does it make" comment was in response to the constant--and bizarre--focus on what Susan Rice said on the Sunday shows 5 days after the attack. This was harped on for months and months, and I totally agreed with and felt Clinton's frustration. This clip MAY hurt her a bit, but only if divorced from context. It might turn out like "you didn't build that" which was also taken waayyyy out of context. But I'll bet they try to use it.
ReplyDeleteBy they way, you saw that this attack WAS partly due to that video Rice mentioned right? That it was at least used as an excuse to attack? That just came out over the last few days.